THR claims "Acts centers on Houdini during the height of his career in 1926, when he toured the world, amassing large crowds with his elaborate and daring escape performances. Zeta-Jones is set to play an exotic psychic with whom Houdini embarks on a passionate affair."

The Aussie-U.K. pic will reportedly film this summer in the United Kingdom.

I do find it curious that the film has Houdini romancing a psychic as he was famously dedicated to debunking spiritualists.

It is also interesting to note that Zeta-Jones was long attached to co-star in Smoke & Mirrors, a period adventure where she would have played the assistant to sorcerer Jean Robert-Houdin, the man whom Erich Weiss took his stagename "Houdini" from.